PEN BALL WIZARD
Daily Star|March 16, 2023
Stones has fun signing Erling's hat-trick haul
JEREMY CROSS
PEN BALL WIZARD

JOHN STONES admits he has got into the habit of writing comical messages on Erling Haaland's balls this season.

Match balls that is - each time the Manchester City sensation helps himself to another hat-trick.

Haaland plundered his fifth treble of the season as he scored five to help City hammer RB Leipzig 7-0 on Tuesday night and cruise into the Champions League quarter-finals.

The Norwegian now has an astonishing 39 goals for the season - breaking City's record of 38 set by Tommy Johnson in 1929.

And Stones admits Haaland is so good he will write many more messages on the striker's hat-trick mementos.

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